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<?php $string = <<<HTML <p>my text 1</p> some other content <p>some other paragraph followed by an html line break</p><br> etc... HTML; $string = preg_replace('~</?[a-z]+>\R(*SKIP)(*FAIL)|$~m', '<br>', $string); var_export($string); echo "\n----\n"; var_export(json_encode($string));
Output for 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.34, 8.2.0 - 8.2.30, 8.3.0 - 8.3.30, 8.4.1 - 8.4.18, 8.5.0 - 8.5.3
'<p>my text 1</p> some other content<br> <p>some other paragraph followed by an html line break</p><br> etc...<br>' ---- '"<p>my text 1<\\/p>\\nsome other content<br>\\n<p>some other paragraph followed by an html line break<\\/p><br>\\netc...<br>"'

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103.42 ms | 1635 KiB | 4 Q